Join the CT Team Hope Walk May 21st to Honor May as Huntington's Disease Awareness Month

The Connecticut Affiliate of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HDSA) is honoring HD Awareness Month by holding their 11th Annual Team Hope Walk at Chatfield Hollow State Park in Killingworth on May 21st at the shelter near the entrance on Rt 80. The Team Hope Walk program is HDSA’s largest grassroots event, being held on over 100 cities across the country. All proceeds support HDSA’s fight to improve the lives of people affected by HD and their families. We thank our national sponsors Lundbeck and Teva Pharmaceuticals.

Registration begins at 9 am and the walk starts at 10 am. The 1 1/2 mile walk/run/ride is a fun, family-friendly event that includes food, raffle/auction items, music and children’s activities (face painting, balloon animals and magic). Dogs are welcome. This park is a designated trout park so if you have a license bring your fishing pole. $25 minimum donation to participate.

Huntington's disease (HD) is a devastating, hereditary, degenerative brain disorder that slowly diminishes the affected individual's ability to walk, think, talk and for which, presently, there is no cure. Juvenile HD have been diagnosed in children as young as two years of age. More than 30,000 people in the United States are currently diagnosed with more than 250,000 at risk of already inheriting the disease. There are thousands of people in CT affected in one way or another.

To volunteer or support the Team Hope Walk, please contact Susan McGann at 860-558-8847 or cthdsa@gmail.com or go to www.hdsa.org/thwct for more information